Skyfall

James Bond is back on the slopes to save the world in style in the first released footage from "Spectre," the next installment of Sony Pictures' super-spy franchise. Shot in the snow-swept mountains of Austria, the clip gives a sense of the small army of crew members, fleet of vehicles and intricate camera rigging required to pull off a Bond shoot. The two-minute video glimpses returning "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes running the show and features cameos from Bond girl Lea Seydoux (Madeleine Swann) and henchman David Bautista (Mr. Hinx), before culminating with an action shot of Craig, Daniel Craig, as Bond. Appropriately dressed in a trim turtleneck and...

James Bond is back on the slopes to save the world in style in the first released footage from "Spectre," the next installment of Sony Pictures' super-spy franchise.
Shot in the snow-swept mountains of Austria, the clip gives a sense of the...

Amy Pascal's exit from Sony Pictures comes as the studio faces one of its biggest creative crossroads.
The film studio has been trailing its Hollywood rivals when it comes to big, reliable franchises — the kind of blockbusters that drive the box...

The Sony hackers released a seventh dump of files online Saturday morning and promised a larger "Christmas gift" that will "put Sony Pictures into the worst state."
A spokesman for Sony had no immediate...

Forget martinis and femme fatales; the constant running through 50 years of James Bond movies has been Martin, Aston Martin.
The 24th installment of the spy series, called “Spectre,” features a 2015 Aston Martin DB10.
“I’m really excited and thrilled to...

"A WOMAN should be two things: classy and fabulous," said Coco Chanel.
I have loved Judi Dench since I discovered her on British TV and then met her through my elegant friend, George Trescher, who was a devout anglophile.
She is a delightful...

Disney’s “Big Hero 6” soared past Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” at the box office this weekend, as both big-budget films had strong launches.
According to studio estimates, the animated action comedy grossed $56.2 million in the U.S. and Canada,...

"Lilting," starring Cheng Pei-pei and Ben Whishaw, is a lyrical little chamber piece on language, playing with what words mean, what the body says, what is understood and what is not.
Writer-director Hong Khaou, in his feature directing...

The Top 11 on "American Idol" tackled songs from the cinema on Wednesday night, and in keeping with the theme, many of the singers seemed to come into artistic focus for the first time. As each stepped forward to sing a song either written for...

We're 13 days away from the Oscars, which means we're about 13 days and 10 seconds away from the first tweet complaining about the show.
But why wait?
Let's be clear: We're not wishing failure on this year's Oscar telecast or predicting that host...

Sony Corp., a struggling electronics maker trying to regain its once stalwart status, is undertaking a major restructuring that includes the sale of its PC division, a spinoff of its TV business and layoffs of thousands of employees.
The Japanese tech...

French electronic duo Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” was named album of the year and its frisky hit single “Get Lucky,” with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, won for record of the year Sunday at the 56th Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy...

On a night dominated by unlikely musical collaborations of all kinds – from a mini-Beatles reunion to Stetson-wearing Madonna jamming with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at a wedding – the Grammys also found time Sunday to hand out a few awards.
But no...

Over the holidays, most moviegoers have opted for big-budget, spectacle-heavy and family-friendly films at the box office. But while "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and "Frozen" have been packing them in for weeks now, a few...

Few year-end culture lists can inspire more morning-after regret than the ones that provide snapshots of things we've done on the Internet. Remember the day, for instance, your coworkers caught you watching local firehouses doing the "Harlem...

Lurking among the movie and television stars receiving Golden Globes nominations Thursday morning are a handful of musical acts, including Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Justin Timberlake (who, depending on the day, qualifies as a movie star as well).
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MGM Holdings Inc., the parent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $16.6 million, buoyed by the strong performance of "Skyfall" and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" on home...

It's "Hollywood Night" which of course means an opening number to a Bjork song. Bill Nye has a "badly torn tendon" in his leg. I bet that's him out.
Leah Remini & Tony DovolaniRumba
"Skyfall," from the James Bond film...

It’s Hollywood Night in the “Dancing With the Stars” glitterdome, and the remaining 11 couples added a little extra splash and dash to the ol’ Tinseltown glitz and glamour.
And while “DWTS” celebrated this business called show, science lost a couple of...